, 1887-03-05
WINTER NOTES.
Common Occurrences in and About
the City.
Matters of Minor Importance
Hastily Gathered.

Clean the snow off your sidewalks and
pavements.
Sam Ramsey has moved his restaurant
from the Carey block over on to Eddy
street.
After the present batch Of snow disap-
pears We may reasonably expect to see the
green grass begin to peep forth.
Mrs. Emmons, the eccentric, has had
an offer from Manager Ford. of Balti-
more, and will probably go upon the
stage.
In New England this snowstorm would
be called the sugar snow" and would
be the %forerunner OF the sugar making
season.
Cheyenne has plenty of hotels, and they
all appear to be doing a good business,
Notwithstanding the fact that times are
said to be dull.
A large number Of men lately employed
on the Cheyenne & Northern have left
here to go TO work on the Wood River
railroad in Nebraska.
The turntable at Sherman has been
allowed to go by default, and a Y has
been put in which answers the purpose
and does not get out of gear.
NJ. Sachs. the new proprietor of the
Dyer hotel, was at the court house yester-
day afternoon and distributed a few cigars
among the officials and others.
They are having an immense amount of
snow down around Sidney, and trains of
cars left standing on the sidetracks have
been completely showed under.
The ladies of St. Marks guild are to
give a cake sale" at the residence of
Mrs. ljams, on Nineteenth street, COM
m%encing at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Policeman Nolan has been at Fort
Russell a portion of the time during the
past two days as a witness in a court
martial trial now in progress at the post.
The Cheyenne city band practice almost
nightly at the Alert hose house, and is
attaining a degree of efficiency second to
no other band in the territory, military or
otherwise.
There are a good many people in Wyo-
ming who would like to know how the
Wyoming Historical company is getting
along, and, also, when the history is to
make its appearance.
There seemed to be no material i'm
provement in the condition of Signal
Officer Richey yesterday. 1t is under
stood that his physician, DR.. Gray, has
but little hope in his case.
Another school election will occur in the
course of a few weeks, and it would be
well for prospective candidates to be iron
ing the wrinkles out OF their ears and pre-
pairing for the campaign.
There was a regular meeting of the
John L. Reynolds post at their h~eadquar-
ters last evening. During a portion of
the evening the session of the post was
informal, Miss Nellie c. Bailey being
present.
The secretary of the interior has notified
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road company to show cause within sixty
days why the lands patented to it in Ne
braska, in excess of the quantity to which
it is entitled. should not be restored to the
public domain.
Mrs. Theresa Benson died of apoplexy
yesterday morning at the residence of her
sister and brother-in,law. Mrs. and Mr..
w. +. Schreiner. The funeral will take
place next Monday at 2 o'clock p. M.
from the residence of Mr.. Schreiner, cor
ner Twenty seventh and Bent streets.
One of the biggest jokes of the season
is the charge made by the Douglas Adrer-
tiser that Land Register Wilson, of Chey-
enne, is IT. league with the cattlemen in
their land speculations, Unfortunately
for these gentlemen, Mr.. Wilson is in
league with Commissioner Sparks, who
holds that cattlemen have no rights that
should be respected by his department.
Speaking about Longfellow. calls to
mind the fact that not until the whole
world had begun to recognize him as a
great poet did the people OF his own home
begiu to realize the fact that he was en-
lowed with any poetic ability at all. Ifa
fellow can succeed in getting up a pretty
good reputation at home in some p~articu-
lar line, he may be satisfied that there is
something to him, for the old saying, "A
prophet is without honor in his own coun-
try, is true to a considerable extent.
The laws enacted by the forty-ninth
congress relating to Wyoming Territory
are the following: An act to legalize the
election of the territorial legislative assem-
bly,; an act to authorize the secretary of
the interior to use certain ~unexpended
balances for the relief of the Northern
Cheyennes of Wyoming; the act for an
additional associate justice of the supreme
court Of Wyoming; the act appropriating
100000 for Fort Russell, aud the act to
indemnify Chinese residents for losses